4 easy-to-use editing apps for aspiring videographers

Making short form videos for social media apps is an immensely popular trend among youngsters. This has naturally increased the demand for video editing apps as well because creating a video isn’t good enough. The final product needs to maintain certain quality standards to stand out. Here’s a list of 5 easy-to-use video editors that youngsters can try their hands at.  

Windows 10 photo app 
Not everyone knows that the Windows 10 photo app also comes with a free video editor. This can be the very first app you can introduce your youngster to because it is basic and easy to handle. This video editor will allow her to shorten the videos, add titles and captions wherever necessary, and use a series of fonts and styles. It also lets the user choose a background music which can be customized. While editing a video with this app, your youngster can also borrow fancy 3D effects from Microsoft Paint 3D.  

Openshot 
This app is free with Windows 10 and offers a wide range of tools. The features are easy to use which include filters, scene transitions, innovative effects and alterable video properties. Openshot is popular with kids who make school presentations. 

Movavi 
This app doesn’t offer free lifetime access. But its 7-day trial period is enough to familiarise your youngster with video editing. Movavi has become immensely popular among youngsters because it teaches video editing in five easy steps: Adding video clippings, trimming or enhancing, applying transition shades, inserting background music and exporting the ready product. Apart from its kid-friendly layout, Movavi has something else that kids find interesting: Animation effects. Movavi has a special feature that allows youngsters to capture live video streams for other sources, say an online class on Zoom. 

HitFilm Express 
This free-of-cost app is comparatively advanced and should be given access only when a youngster has been editing videos for some time. It is highly recommended for teenagers who passionately pursue videography as it comes with a large variety of professional grade tools and visual effects. The user interface is pretty straightforward with features like adding to timelines and drag and drop files. The added advanced elements on this app are, tools for colour corrections, layer masks, image tracking, post-processing effects and particle simulator.